Class Quotes - Page 49

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and classes are closely and permanently united, and in which the autonomy of its state members and the personal freedom and initiative of the individuals that compose them are definitely and completely safeguarded.

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.

Can you tell the difference between them?

You managed not to get eaten then?

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.'

You meet a better class of person in pubs.